Australian Royalty: Genealogy of the colony of NSW

Name Ernest Kentwell
Birth Date 1884
Birth Place New South Wales
Registration Year 1884
Registration Place Central Cumberland, New South Wales, Australia
Father
Samuel Kentwell
Mother
Hannah Kentwell
Registration Number 16954

Name Ernest Kentwell
Marriage Date 1911
Marriage Place Burrowa [sic], New South Wales
Registration Date 1911
Registration Place Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse
Elsie Vaughan
Registration Number 12561

The Burwood Baptist Church was the scene of a wedding on Christmas eve, December 23, when Mr. Ernest Kentwell, youngest son of Mr S. Kentwell, of Minerva, Manson road, Concord, and late of Castle Hill, and Miss Elsie Vaughan, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Vaughan, of Lynnwood, Broughton street, Concord, were married. Despite the prevailing dearth of garden flowers, the church looked exceedingly pretty. Willing workers had erected a large arch of asparagus and flannel flowers, a handsome wedding bell completing the structure. The bride was attended by her two sisters as bridesmaids, the Misses Millie and Frances Vaughan. Rev. E C. Sommerlad was best man, and Mr. Gordon Vaughan groomsman. The minister of the church, the Rev. Henry Clark, was assisted in the marriage service by Rev. Dr. Bromilow (President of the Methodist Conference). The bride wore ivory crepe de chine, elaborately braided and trimmed with malines lace and insertion. Her tulle veil, embroidered in each corner with large true lovers' knots, was held in place by a coronet of orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet, and wore a pearl star pendant with topaz centre, gifts of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids wore white embroidered dresses, and carried pink floral bouquets. The chief bridesmaid also wore a pearl and garnet pendant, and her younger sister a watch, with brooch attached. These were the bridegroom's gifts. Subsequently a reception was held in the School of Arts, which had also been tastefully decorated. About 70 guests sat down to the wedding breakfast.

Name Ernest Kentwell
Residence Place Strathfield
Death Date 30 Jul 1950
Death Place New South Wales, Australia
Occupation Real Estate Agent
File Number B27821

KENTWELL, Ernest - July 30, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. N. Prowse, Strathfield, loved brother-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Vaughan, Miss S. Vaughan, Mr. and Mrs. G Vaughan, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Sommerlad, and Mr. and Mrs. E. Dale.

THE LATE ERNEST KENTWELL
The death of Mr. Ernest Kentwell which occurred at Strathfield on Sunday, 29th July, removes from the Concord (Wesley) Church one of the most distinguished and dynamic of its members. The funeral services took place on Tuesday, 1st August, the service in 'Wesley' being conducted by the Rev. C. J. .Wells, circuit superintendent, and that at the Crematorium by the Rev. R. Grayson, Chairman of the Maitland District. At the Church service Mr. Wells was assisted by tlie Rev. Dudley Hyde, LL.B., and the Rev. P. L. Black, and at the Crematorium Mr. Grayson was assisted by the Rev. A. M. Sanders, Secretary of the Conference.
Mr. Kentwell had been in very indifferent health for some considerable time, and the death of his wife, a few weeks ago was a blow from which he was unable to recover. But a man of varied gifts and unusual qualities passed from the world when he died. His shoes are not likely to be an exact fit for anyone who may follow him in the several offices he held. As a Church official he may be imitated, but it will take a man of rare attainments to build up a finer record of service.
Speaking at the funeral of his brother, Robert G. Ingersoll said: He added to the sum of human joy; and were everyone to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep beneath a wilderness of flowers.' The same might be said with equal truth of Ernest Kentwell. A warmer, kinder heart never beat in a human breast than beat in his. He did good by stealth, and in every other way in which good can be done, and when he did it he promptly for got about it. To be generous was, with him, to be quite natural. He could hate, and hate well, but the things he hated were the things which every good man is bound to hate, — cant, duplicity, pretence and humbug.
He had three main interests in life, — his home, his business, and his church, and he served all three with ceaseless and tireless devotion. What his wife and children meant to him he could never trust himself to say, but his love for them expressed itself in sleepless solicitude for them. His business provided him with the means of earning an honourable livelihood, and he carried into it all the tact, judgment and acumen with which he was endowed. But the Church had a special claim upon his time and thought, and to it he gave, year in and year out, of his very best. 'Wesley' was a part of him, and a very large part at that. It would never have been built but for him, and nothing that concerned its prosperity escaped his attention. Like the psalmist, he loved the habitation of God's house, and the place where His honour dwelleth.
He was a good friend to ministers and a discriminating judge of sermons. No one ever put anything over him, or tricked him with tinsel and fustian. He could distinguish clearly between the real gospel and the mere opinons of men, and it is nothing more than the simple truth to say that it was the great facts of the gospel which sustained him and made him what he was. He knew Whom he believed, and his knowledge deepened with the years.
'Wesley' will not be same Church without him, but in the world of light into which he has passed he will find many friends, and chiefest among them the Lord and Saviour of us all.
To the members of his family, and to all whom his passing leaves lonelier and sadder, our deep est sympathy is given. They may take comfort from the thought that their loss is his infinite gain.